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Victoria Azarenka was in self-induced meltdown. She failed to close out the
match at 5-3 in the second set. As five match points slipped away, the
decibel reading for frustrated shrieks matched the rising thermometer.

With her game in disarray, Azarenka left the court, taking two medical
time-outs simultaneously — claiming separate ailments, for her knee and her
rib — and effectively bringing the semi-final to a standstill, halting
Sloane Stephens’s momentum and leaving the American to sit on court alone
for nine minutes while Azarenka gathered herself during treatment in the
locker room. When she finally returned to the court, she